Edward Lasker

Businessman + Owner + Overlord

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BornMay 15, 1912

Edward Lasker was an American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse owner. He was one of the three children of Flora Warner and her husband, Albert Davis Lasker (1880-1952), the owner of Lord & Thomas, a highly successful Chicago advertising agency, who was also the owner of the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team. Edward Lasker graduated from Yale University in 1933. He then joined his father's advertising agency where he worked until 1941.… Read More

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'Morris E. Lasker, a federal judge in New York and Massachusetts for four decades who struck down squalid, often brutal conditions in New York City jails and upheld prisoners\' rights perhaps more than any other jurist of his era, died Friday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 92 and had homes in Cambridge and Chilmark, Mass. The cause was cancer, his son'

'LEBWORTH--Caral Gimbel , died peacefully in her home on September 25, 2008. after a short illness. Caral was born on November 29, 1914 to Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel. The two great passions of Caral\'s long Iife were horses and the arts. At the age of 17, she dropped out of high school and went to Paris to study art for two years. There, she met'

'LEBWORTH--Caral Gimbel, died peacefully in her home on September 25, 2008. after a short illness. Caral was born on November 29, 1914 to Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel. The two great passions of Caral\'s long Iife were horses and the arts. At the age of 17, she dropped out of high school and went to Paris to study art for two years. There, she met'

'LEBWORTH--Caral Gimbel, died peacefully in her home on September 25, 2008. after a short illness. Caral was born on November 29, 1914 to Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel. The two great passions of Caral\'s long Iife were horses and the arts. At the age of 17, she dropped out of high school and went to Paris to study art for two years. There, she met'

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CHILDHOOD

TWENTIES

193321 Years Old
Edward Lasker graduated from Yale University in 1933.
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He then joined his father's advertising agency where he worked until 1942 when he joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Pacific. Read Less

193523 Years Old
In 1935, he married Gimbels department-store heiress Caral Gimbel, but the marriage ended in divorce and Caral wed baseball star Hank Greenberg in 1946.
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After the war (by which time his father had left the advertising business), Edward Lasker moved to the West Coast of the United States where he became a film producer in Hollywood. Read Less

THIRTIES

194735 Years Old
In 1947, Lasker married actress Jane Greer with whom he had three children.
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Their sons Alex and Lawrence Lasker are screenwriters and producers. Read Less

FORTIES

195543 Years Old
At age forty, Edward Lasker went back to university to study for a law degree. After graduating in 1955 from the University of California in Los Angeles he began practising law.
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He served for many years on the boards of directors of Phillip Morris, Inc. and Great Western Financial. Read Less

FIFTIES

196351 Years Old
In 1963, Edward Lasker married Cynthia Stone Palmer.
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In 1929, Edward Lasker became involved in Thoroughbred horse racing as an owner/breeder. After his marriage, his wife also became a race horse owner. Read Less

LATE ADULTHOOD

199785 Years Old
Edward Lasker was living in Los Angeles at the time of his death in 1997 at age eighty-five.